Women inventors: 9 things discovered by women... If we ask you about well-known inventors, you will probably immediately name Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, or even Leonardo da Vinci. What about Mary Anderson? Or Ann Tsukamoto? Do these names mean anything to you?
Naturally, women have used breast support since the beginning of history. But the invention of Mary Phelps Jacobs, the owner of the first bra patent, marked the beginning of a new era in women's wear.
American pharmacologist and biochemist Gertrude B. Elion is famous for scientifically discovering drugs to treat leukemia and herpes, and drugs to prevent kidney transplant rejection.
Thanks to Fanney Hesse if a petri dish was used to grow and isolate different bacterial cultures! She suggested to her husband to use agar instead of gelatin in Petri dishes and fundamentally changed the science of microbiology.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that thanks to her achievements, Google and YouTube have reached their present point.
A woman with breast cancer started a brand that sells clothes that other patients undergoing chemotherapy can wear comfortably.
Why did Google doodle Hedy Lamarr in honor of her 101st birthday? Our inventor, whose stage name is Hedy Lamarr, is actually a Vienna-born Jewish film star whose real name is Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.
In 1886, we come across a female inventor, Josephine Cochrane. Cochrane is a descendant of the inventor of steamships, and in some sources it is even said that the inventor of steamships was the grandfather of Josephine Cochrane.
A drug that can affect the metabolism of only one type of virus or cancer cell and has no other side effects is the dream of medical doctors. These drugs, called antiviral drugs, invented by the scientists of the United States, George Hitchings and Gertrude Ellon, have revolutionized the medical world.
British Mandy Haberman had little to do with inventions until her third child, Emily, was born in 1980.
Rescuing parents from the tedious task of cleaning diapers was made possible by a Swedish paper mill, a Connecticut housewife, and a Proctor & Gamble engineer.
